Quote Originally Posted by Isaveron View Post
Prolonging the leveling process doesn't teach players the necessary skills to be good at their class, it just creates another time sink that many people on this forum seem to be obsessed with. What's funny, is that even if there were enemies that required proper knowledge and skill to defeat, the community would simply ignore them for the easy to defeat ones to level off of.
It's not even about "teaching the player their class," it's about the style of gameplay that defines this genre. The "time-sink" argument is ridiculous, because that's what every game ultimately is, and there's no reason that a game can't have fun content that is part of the leveling process.